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(回答先: 関連記事少々【ＦＢＩが韓国人ロビイストに逮捕状 人道支援不正疑惑[先月]】 投稿者 ネオファイト 日時 2005 年 5 月 19 日 00:21:32)
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2005年03月24日10時19分
イラクの旧フセイン政権時代に行われた国連の人道支援事業「石油と食糧の交換計画」をめぐる不正疑惑で、アナン国連事務総長の長男コジョ氏が、イラクの輸入する物資の検査を請け負っていたスイスの企業「コテクナ」から３０万ドル以上を受け取っていたことや、アナン氏自身が同社の幹部と会っていたことが明らかになった。２３日付の英紙フィナンシャル・タイムズが報じた。アナン氏はこれまで面会の事実を公にしておらず、苦しい立場に追い込まれる可能性が出てきた。
コジョ氏をめぐる疑惑については、アナン氏から委託された独立調査委員会（委員長・ボルカー米連邦準備制度理事会前議長）が２９日に暫定調査結果を発表する。
報道はフィナンシャル・タイムズとイタリアの経済紙イル・ソーレ・２４・オレの共同調査の結果としている。
それによると、９９年１月に英紙デーリー・テレグラフがコジョ氏の疑惑を初めて報道した後、コテクナ社から同氏への送金がそれまでとは異なる名義の口座で行われるなど、不透明な取引が行われたという。
また、アナン氏がコテクナ社の幹部と、スイスのダボスやニューヨークの国連本部などで計３回会い、うち１回は同社が国連から事業を請け負うことが決まる３カ月前だった。国連報道官が会合の事実を認めたうえで、アナン氏が独立調査委にすべてを報告し、同社の契約と面会は無関係と述べた、としている。
コジョ氏の疑惑では、９９年の報道直後に国連の内部調査で問題がないとされた。しかし昨年１１月になって、コジョ氏がそれまでの説明と異なり、昨年２月まで同社から顧問料として計１２万５０００ドルを受け取っていたことが明らかになり、アナン氏は「驚き、落胆した」と述べていた。
アナン氏は昨年以来、独立調査委の事情聴取を３時間以上受けている。
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〈キーワード・石油と食糧の交換計画〉 経済制裁下のイラク国民のため、９６年〜０３年に石油を輸出した収入で食糧や医薬品などの人道物資の輸入を認めた国連の人道援助事業。総額は６４０億ドルにのぼった。旧フセイン政権と国連幹部との癒着が指摘され、昨年４月にアナン事務総長が独立調査委員会を設置した。
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/27/news/oil.php
Swiss firm calls UN oil-for-food report 'false'
By Judith Miller The New York Times
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005
Cotecna Inspection Services, the Swiss company that monitored the shipment of humanitarian goods to Iraq under the oil-for-food program, has accused the committee investigating the program for the United Nations of making "false, misleading and malicious" statements.
In letters written March 30 and April 21, a Cotecna lawyer demanded that the committee correct "inaccuracies and misleading statements" in its report.
The committee's second report, issued March 29, criticized the company for making "false statements" about its relationship with Kojo Annan, son of Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general. The report, wrote Evelyn Suarez, the Cotecna lawyer, portrayed a "distorted and untrue picture of the company."
The committee "stands by its report," said Mark Pieth, one of three commissioners on the panel, which is led by Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman.
Speaking on grounds that they not be identified, investigators for the committee discounted Cotecna's complaints, noting the report's conclusion that the panel still lacked a full account of Cotecna's payments to Kojo Annan and its activities with respect to the oil-for-food program. The program, which ran from December 1996 to 2003, allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy food and medicine.
The company's accusations are the latest criticisms of the panel, which Kofi Annan appointed last year under pressure to investigate charges of corruption in the $64 billion program. The complaints - which accuse the panel of being either too tough on UN staff members and contractors, as Cotecna has alleged, or too soft, as UN critics have said - reflect the extent to which the organization and the investigations have become politically polarizing.
Last week, The Associated Press reported that two staff members on Volcker's panel had resigned. One of them, Robert Parton, who led the investigation of Kojo Annan and Cotecna, argued that the panel had been uncritical of the relationship between the two and too willing to accept the secretary general's statements that he had not interfered with the selection of Cotecna.
The second Volcker report was harsher in its judgment of Kojo Annan, 31, and Cotecna, saying they had conspired to conceal the duration of their relationship and that Kojo Annan had deceived his father about it. It also accused Cotecna of making "false statements to the public, the United Nations and the committee."
In its letter to Volcker, Cotecna denied specifically that it had made "false statements" about its relationship with Kojo Annan.
Cotecna insisted it had been accurate in saying that Annan had not done any work for the company after Dec. 31, 1998. Cotecna paid him after that to ensure that he would not work for competitors.
The Volcker committee points to an April 2004 letter from a senior Cotecna executive denying that Kojo Annan was employed by Cotecna or had received money from the company after 1998. A Cotecna spokesman said the executive had simply been mistaken; he said the company had informed the panel that the statement had been made in error.
Cotecna expressed "outrage" over the report's assertions that there were "possibly" additional payments of $306,305 to Kojo Annan beyond what it had disclosed. A Cotecna spokesman said that in January, the company had told Volcker's investigators that one reported possible payment had come from a competitor. This, the letter said, suggested the payment "did not come from Cotecna."
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